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All about the 'adult' newsgroups:

A significant portion of the usenet is devoted to adult
newsgroups. Adult newsgroups contain binary images (jpegs) of
sexually oriented content. A wide variety of newsgroups exist
relating to many different subjects. Disclaimer: I do not endorse
or support any content related to any newsgroups contained on the
usenet. Use of information obtained from the Internet, usenet, or
this web page is strictly at the user's own risk and I shall not
be held accountable for any damages relating to use or misuse of
this information.

I have always maintained a policy not to specifically support
adult content, but the overwhelming requests for this information
have made it necessary to provide some reference on the subject.
I must stress again, use this information at your own risk, and
with no guarantee.

Adult newsgroups usually follow the pattern
"alt.binaries.pictures.erotica...". A good example is
"alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.amateur.female", which
is a generic group for amateur female pictures.

Why newsgroups? Why not websites?

Money. It's as simple as that -- newsgroups are free and
websites cost money. A website requires a centralized server that
handles all user requests, and thus to host a pornography website
costs a lot of $$ to handle all of the traffic. However,
newsgroups are a distributed system -- news is transmitted to
various ISP's, and stored on the ISP's computers. It's like each
ISP has a little piece of the content on it, and this minimizes
costs significantly.

Most adult websites charge a fee, either monthly or yearly.
Some claim to be free, but usually have some trick associated
with them that requires use of your credit card for
"verification" purposes! Newsgroups are free, and so is
BinaryVortex.

Why not download manually using a normal newsreader?

Normal newsreaders are optimized and designed for text
transmission, not image transmission. Images are big and require
a lot of bandwidth to transfer to your computer, and this
requires a lot of time. The best solution is to download your
images automatically, in an unattended manner, and then review
them at your leisure. This is exactly what BinaryVortex is
designed for -- it can run unattended overnight leaving you with
content for review the next day. Automatically and flawlessly.

Configuring BinaryVortex to download adult newsgroups:

BinaryVortex treats adult newsgroups no differently than
standard newsgroups. The program itself simply does not care what
you download. The first step is to enter the names of some adult
newsgroups into the download list. This is accomplished on the
'groups' tab, using the <Add> button. Pressing the
<Add> button will bring forth a dialog listing all of the
available newsgroups (you may have to press 'refresh' if your
newsgroup list is not up-to-date).

If you wish, you can scroll the window into the
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica section (just keep scrolling down
until you get there). Then you will see all of the available
adult newsgroups. Click on one and it will appear in the edit box
below, then click <Ok> to add it. Repeat until you get all
of them you want.

Additional information pertaining to adult newsgroups:

The adult groups have a tremendous problem with
"spam" (unwanted commerical bulk posts). This is
because the commercial sites think the public is stupid enough to
give out their credit cards at the easiest provocation. There are
even spam messages by some competitors of BinaryVortex (shame on
them -- that's reason alone to register my product rather than
theirs!)

Avoiding spam could be called an art rather than a science.
The easiest way is to enter various "kill strings" into
BinaryVortex. The kill strings will prevent any message from
being downloaded that contains the given text in the from or
subject fields. If you notice a particular spammer, you can thus
lockout his name or subject with a simple keystroke.

Newsgroups may contain material that is illegal in your area.
Remember, the Internet is a world-wide system, and the laws that
apply to the sender may not be the same laws that apply to the
receiver. Therefore, it is possible for you to download illegal
material. My best advice is, if you notice such material, to
delete it immediately and enter the sender into a "kill
string" to prevent downloads from that person again.

Content ranges in many forms: images (gif, jpeg, bmp), movies
(mpeg, avi), and even sound files (wav,au). Small to medium size
files (i.e. jpeg and gif) which fit within one single news
message are easiest to handle as newservers tend to drop parts of
the larger multipart files at random. If you really want to
download movies, then I would suggest finding a good website
somewhere, pay them a monthly fee, and get all the movies you
want without error.